Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

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[1] The following terms, expressive of different forms of divination,have been collected from various sources, and are here given as a curiousillustration of bygone superstitions:- Divination by oracles, Theomancy[obs3]; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; byghosts, Psychomancy[obs3]; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy[obs3]; byshadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy[obs3],Chaomancy[obs3]; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors,Meteoromancy[obs3]; by winds, Austromancy[obs3]; by sacrificialappearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy)[obs3], Hieromancy[obs3],Hieroscopy[obs3]; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy[obs3],Hieromancy[obs3]; by the entrails of a human sacrifice,Anthropomancy[obs3]; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy[obs3]; bysacrificial fire, Pyromancy[obs3]; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy[obs3]; bysmoke from the altar, Capnomancy[obs3]; by mice, Myomancy[obs3]; by birds,Orniscopy[obs3], Ornithomancy[obs3]; by a cock picking up grains,Alectryomancy (or Alectromancy)[obs3]; by fishes, Ophiomancy[obs3]; byherbs, Botanomancy[obs3]; by water, Hydromancy[obs3]; by fountains,Pegomancy[obs3]; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes,Crithomancy[obs3]; by meal, Aleuromancy[obs3], Alphitomancy[obs3]; by salt,Halomancy[obs3]; by dice, Cleromancy[obs3]; by arrows, Belomancy[obs3]; bya balanced hatchet, Axinomancy[obs3]; by a balanced sieve,Coscinomancy[obs3]; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy[obs3]; by dots madeat random on paper, Geomancy[obs3]; by precious stones, Lithomancy[obs3];by pebbles, Pessomancy[obs3]; by pebbles drawn from a heap,Psephomancy[obs3]; by mirrors, Catoptromancy[obs3]; by writings in ashes,Tephramancy[obs3]; by dreams, Oneiromancy[obs3]; by the hand, Palmistry,Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy[obs3]; byfinger rings, Dactylomancy[obs3]; by numbers, Arithmancy[obs3]; by drawinglots, Sortilege[obs3]; by passages in books, Stichomancy[obs3]; by theletters forming the name of the person, Onomancy[obs3], Nomancy; by thefeatures, Anthroposcopy[obs3]; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy[obs3]; byventriloquism, Gastromancy[obs3]; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy[obs3];by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy[obs3]; by currents, Bletonism;by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy[obs3].